Wallaceburg’s Donkers Gets Shot At CFL Combine
Brandon Donkers of Wallaceburg, who played this season with the Windsor AKO Fratmen, will attend the CFL combine this month – Photo from Juniors.OFCFootball.com
The regional combines are a new addition as of last season to help the CFL expand their scouting efforts and evaluate additional players. Athletes from these combines, including the Toronto event which Donkers will attend on March 26, have the opportunity to be invited to the main National CFL Combine March 27-29, and are furthering their chances to be selected in the CFL Draft.
“The addition of a regional combine last year helped expand our teams scouting databases and evaluate more players in a combine setting, which netted positive results,” said Kevin McDonald, CFL Vice President of Football Operations in a league news release. “After adding fourteen players to the national combine last year, with thirteen of them hearing their names called on draft day, it proves that Canada, coast to coast has incredible depth of football players.”
Donkers, a former Wallaceburg District Secondary School Tartans football star, played last season for the Windsor AKO Fratmen in the Ontario Football Conference.
Donkers was the Fratmen’s offensive player of the year, and a league all-star rushing for 999-yards, while helping the Windsor squad win the OFC Junior championship.
Prior to playing in Windsor, Donkers played in the British Columbia Football Conference with the Okanagan Sun, where he earned an invite last season to the 2014 BC Lions Spring Evaluation Camp.
So good to read about this opportunity for Brandon Donkers. I do not know Brandon well, but do remember him playing in Wallaceburg’s Men’s Rec Soccer League a few years back and he has quite the work ethic. I hope he does well at the regional combine and gets noticed by a scout.